Moving Forward

My cold is feeling better. But when I ran with Sue Saturday I had a sore throat and a bit of a cough. I think it was because of all the pollution, and today was even worse! I swear you can almost taste the pollution in the air. I opted to run at the gym.... not too bad. Kept it at about 9:20 pace. 

Well we are getting a bit of snow, but I'm not sure it will be enough to move all the pollution out. It was another TM day for me... Ran 1.2, then my tummy decided to start getting upset. Felt a bit better after a potty break, and ran 5 more miles. All the treats at work are not doing my tummy any favors. Kept the pace at 9:18. Today is the last day of work for the year!! I don't go back until 1/4/10. I'm hoping to have time to get the sculpt that is driving me nuts done for my sister. 

I'm loving the relaxing days of no work!!! At least outside the house LOL. Putted around doing some chores until around 9 and finally decided to get my run in. Boy I had a crazy case of lead leg today!! And even though I could see blue ski and I even caught a glimpes of my shadow today, the temps didn't melt the ice and I was slipping around on black ice for about 70% of my run. Even with all that it felt so wonderful to get outside and run!! Well I'm off to spend some more time relaxing around... I will do some chorse but boy it's crazy nice to have the house to myself!! I even got in a long hot bath after my run... now that is paradise!

laps: 9:12, 9:48, 8:48, 9:12, 10:11, 8:59, 8:54, (.20) 8:43

Today was an easy five... but very frosty! There was just the tiniest patches of blue sky scattered across the horizon, they got a bit bigger as my run progressed. Even though it felt colder today the road conditions were actually better. I think the hardest thing for me now is just the looming laziness that I'm feeling... It's so true that slothfulness is a sin, one that I'm really trying my best to overcome while on my vacation.

laps: 9:28, 9:15, 8:55, 8:58, 8:23, (.15) 8:57

I was on my own this morning and I really did not want to run the roads, so I took my Yaktraks for their inaugural run on the trails. Holy Cow that was fun!!! The trail was a perfect single track ribbon of packed snow between sparkling powder. With the Yaktacks on there was absolutely no slipping so I could run the steeper uphills and down hills. I completely wore myself out! I was also completely alone until the turnaround point. I was streatching a bit when I lady come running in from the neighborhood that borders the trails. She kinda gave me a snubby look... I think she didn't like my sexy outfit LOL. I'm sooo joking... I had pulled a pair of my husbands bright blue gym shorts over my running tights, nothing like adding bright material to the widest part of you body. But they kept my legs a bit warmer. Anyway I let her pass and finished streaching. As I started running again, I could see that I was going to gain on her so I picked up my pace and ran past her. I tried to keep that pace for a while because it would have been horrible to have her pass me after I had passed her. But She didn't I could see her getting farther behind as we weaved in and out of the canyons. The Christmas tree that someone had decorated was still all decorated, with an added Thank-you note from someone... so cute :) There were more people as I got closer to the parking lot. Lots of people with their dogs, about got ran over buy the cutest lab puppy. Any way a slow 11:22 pace run but absolutely fun. I will have to go up there again before I go back to work!